Development Entries

While knowledge realms like StackOverflow are invaluable to solving programming issues, there's something to be said for a good coding book that not only teaches you the how, but the why. Here are some of our team's favorite programming books.

Having been a member of the Ruby on Rails community for over 12 years, I’ve seen a lot of application code bases. In this article, I’m going to share eight items that we check on when we begin auditing a code base.

The world of online security is more prominent than ever. In a world of malware, ransomware, and hacking, it's important to keep your website secure. If you're in the healthcare space, we've put together a guide to keep your online patient health information safe. Check it out.

The web development world has a strong community on Twitter. A quick scroll will help you learn a new skill, keep you entertained with dev humor, and maybe even let you commiserate with peers on a difficult task. We curated some of the best web development Twitter feeds around. Here are 15 you should follow.

Five weeks flew by too quickly! Last Friday, our two interns from Epicodus had their last day with Planet Argon. During their time with our Rails development team, James and Tracie were able to work on real-life applications. On his last day, James put together a list of five things he learned during his Rails internship with Planet Argon. Check them out!

After spending five months in coding school, it was great to get hands-on agency coding experience at Planet Argon. Taking the Ruby and Rails track at Epicodus gave me a breadth of knowledge and I was eager to continue learning about backend development and see bigger applications implemented with these technologies.

We're kicking off our 2017 internships with a spring partnership with Epicodus, a PNW-based vocational school for aspiring programmers. For five weeks, we have two interns working in-house, James Padilla and Tracie Weitzman. Here's a quick reflection of James' first week at Planet Argon.

Outsourcing a new web development project? Here's a quick guide to everything you need to know to get the most accurate estimate from outside agencies. No more running around in circles on endless conference calls and email threads for weeks. Cut to the chase and get that project started ASAP.

InfoWorld recently showcased seven of the most popular productivity tools on GitHub.

Can you guess what ranked at the top?

Our own founder, Robby Russell’s, creation Oh My Zsh, which has accumulated over 43,000 GitHub stars. Created in 2009 as an open source, community-driven framework for managing your ZSH configuration, it comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, and themes.

We have been using Bootstrap as our go-to frontend framework for a few years now and it has been working great. The next version of Bootstrap is on the horizon and currently has an alpha release. Let’s take a look at what Bootstrap 4 has in store for us.

Early this year, we launched a redesign of our website on Squarespace. After a few months, we had a handful of features we loved, but also a lot of roadblocks we were tired of maneuvering around. So we faced another decision, move off or add more development time into making it work. This story is about what we learned, and why we said goodbye to Squarespace.